Wednesday, 29 January 2014

I was given
a Gelli plate for Christmas so I’ve decided to use it for my first ALAW 2014
alphabet.

I’ve never
used one before so I want to keep it simple.

I’m
exploring how stylised a letter can be or how little of it do you need to see
in order for it to be readable as that letter. I’m going to use these
positive/negative shapes to create 26 abstract prints.

I’ve not
decided yet how I’ll put them together.

These last two are close to what I want - shame the Y is the wrong way round.

Saturday, 18 January 2014

As part of
the experiments I’ve been doing for ‘Personal Histories’ I’ve been scanning
family photographs.

My husband
has an old family album. It’s quite small with leather covered wood boards
(very wormy) and it’s not in the best of conditions. It’s probably more
accurate to say that he has bits of a family album. Restoring it is beyond my
skills but I decided to scan the pages and boards and create a digitally printed
facsimile.

Of course I
got carried away; having scanned the pages it was easy to create extra blank
frames to add more photos that weren't originally in the album.

I printed it
on cheap printer paper in black and white just to see what I could do with it.
The images are concertinaed and the end pages glued to the cover. This was just
a quick way to explore the idea rather than sewing but I quite like the way it
opens out.

If I am more restrained with the number of pages I think this structure could be adapted to work with a chain of dancing dolls.